Well just last year there were front-page stories on this website about the ballooning number of bureaucrats/admin staff at US universities. I think there was a

Well just last year there were front-page stories on this website about the ballooning number of bureaucrats/admin staff at US universities. I think there was a flurry of articles since the proportion of admin staff had just exceeded faculty/students, or something similar. I'm with you though, I don't know who to believe, from the outside looking in. But some of the stuff that's been cut is only taking us back 5 years and it's hard for me to get worked up over that. What would really help with all these cuts is some historical perspective. Has 60% overhead been the norm for 50 years, 20 years, 5 years?